This season there were far too many inspiring shows. Too many to pick out my favorites and share with you.

And anyways, doesn’t every fashion blogger share their top looks, looks that you’ve already seen yourself?

Well, my plan was to save you  from being subjected to a fashion week reiteration. But when I saw Sonia Rykiel’s collection from Paris Fashion Week over the weekend, I couldn’t help but delight in her genius.

The show took place in Rykiel’s shop on Boulevard Saint-Germain where she rigged up disco balls and a confetti covered floor for her models to shimmy and shake it down the runway. Nichole Phelps of Style.com dubbed the look “thirties by way of seventies”, and boy was she right. I love the classic cuts and cozy knits bursting with pops of color. The whole thing just looks fun, and I encourage you to take a peek at the entire collection but I have also included a few of my favorites here.

(photo via Style.com)

The one thing that struck me the most about the show was how much the production resembled that of a fashion show I helped produce in college dubbed, “Creature”. As part of an undergraduate fashion coalition, each year I helped produce a show to display student work outside of the normal academic platform and in 2007, our chosen theme was Creature.

Avante Garde garments emerged through a thick fog of smoke behind the silhouette of a forest, walking down a runway covered in black mylar confetti (by yours truly)! The mylar’s sheen gave the awesome effect of dirt for the runway, but was a complete and total pain to clean up.

Models complained about slipping and sliding on the confetti covered surface, but we made them to it anyway.

The Creature fashion show is one of the projects I am most proud of from my undergrad career, and it is so flattering and re-affirming to see professionals do very similar work on their shows 2 years later.

model bursting balloons full of confetti onto the runway

(photos via Ian Aleksander Adams)

I also did a design for the show; my model in a reconstructed outfit made from 3 thrifted dresses

(photo via Ian Aleksander Adams)

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